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Show THE SPANISH FORK PRESS DRY FARMING IS OLD TURKEY Drought Resistant Plants Should Be Grown on All Lands. Most Andrew Jensen, Publisher. 2 At the National Capital RED WINTER WHEAT and Non-Irrigat- UTAH PANISH FORK THE UTAH BUDGET Dolla Cortez, a miner employed at and Mngham, was caught In a cave-Ibadly Injured. Near Sallna are Inexhaustible deposits of rock salt, which finds a good and steady market. Two miles of the grade Is finished on the Castle Valley road that will open up the Huntington coal fields In Emery county. According to the tree Inspector's report there are nearly, 2,000,000 fruit trees In Emery county, ranging In age from one to five years. Emery county's first coal mining camp la now being established at Cedar Creek at a point twelve miles northwest of Huntington. ' W. a Jacobson and J. B. Flsk have been arrested In Salt Lake City, charged with having committed a series of daring hold-upduring the past two months. The grain yield of Sevier county of the past season Is estimated at about In addition to the 200,000 bushels. other crops, 8evler valley annually produces tens of thousands of tons of alfalfa. The governor has appointed Mrs. Ella H. Snyder as a member of the board of trustees of the Utah commission for the adult blind, to take the Morris place of Mrs. Josephine Rowan. The area devoted to sugar beets In Eerier county the past season was 1,400 acres, which yielded 25,000 tons. The price received was $4. B0 per ton, as against $5 per ton paid to Colorado n s beet-raiser- Austrian Frank Mills, William Newton and James Drlscoll, Americans, were all more or less seriously stabbed. Two of the During a fight between and Americans at Bingham, foreigners are under arrest. T. R. Davis, scion of a wealthy New York family, was picked up by the police of Ogden a few days ago, suf-fprln-g from alcoholism and giving evidence of a deranged mind. The police have notified his parents in New York. John A. Flndley, a farmer residing at Layton, while driving across the Union Pacific railroad tracks at Uintah, was struck by a freight train. Flndley was thrown Into a snow drift and escaped without injury, but bis horses were killed. The little town of Mlddleton, in Ogden valley, is threatened with an epidemic of scarlet fever, according to reports received by the county health officers. Several cases are reported, and the whole town Is said to be exposed to the disease. Spring City has shipped more hay 'o the outside markets this fall than ever before. Practically all that was for Bale has been sold, and only awaits being tailed for shipment The price of alfalfa Is near the $11 mark, with timothy at $12.50. Walter Wood, aged 29, was killed at Bingham while trying to couple his engine to a freight car. It is not known how the accident occurred, unless the unfortunate man's foot slipped, he being caught between the draw-bead- s and crushed. The Oasis Land & Irrigation company, which has (he disposal of acres of land in Millard county, has sold about 10,000 acres, although water is available for only a part ol the land. Dams and canals are being built at a cost of 1934.000. . As Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Anderson of Mayfleld were returning from the theatre at Mantl one evening last week they came nearly losing their lives in a runaway. They were both tbown from the. sleigh, but fortunately not seriously injured. Sevier county has 76,000 acres of land under cultivation, and which has an average value of $75 per acre. Ten thousand additional acres of choice land will be brought under cultivation as soon as the reservoirs now under construction are completed. The irrigation system of Emery county consists of ten Incorporated companies owning a few small reservoirs and 193 miles of main canal, the water being obtained from Green, Price and San Rafael rivers and the Cottonwood, Huntington, Perron and 'Muddy creeks. Work on the new Taylorsvllle ward house, which will cost $12,000, is being pushed steadily forward. It is the Intention of the contractors to have the place ready for occupancy by the latter part of January. One of the features of the new church will be the amusement hall and gymnasium. By the payment of $9,500 the Union Pacific Railroad company has effected a settlement at Ogden of the $10,000 verdict obtained against the company several months ago by M. N. Wolff, the county treasurer at Evanston, Wyo. Wolff, while walking in the 'yards, was run down ana had botn legs cut off. Bryant Thomas, the young man who escaped from the county jail at Provo about two weeks ago, waa cap lured at Thistle Junction a few days ago and brought bnck to serve the rest of his term, when he will be prosecuted for Jail breaking. Joseph Jordan and A. H. Poulson made an attempt last week to cross the mountains east of Mt, Pleasant, but found It an impossibility on ac count of the snow, which is deepoi than it has bein for many years. It li rstlmated that the snow there is fully six fet't deep on the level. Attention Called to It Recently By Increased Population. Number 11 of the Dry Farming congress bulletin, issued from the international headquarters of the Dry Farming congress,' Is a particularly InterMethodical snd Sclentlflo Development esting' publication. Among the artiDemonttrates Possibility of Utilcles In It Is one on "Pulverizing the Soil to Prevent Evaporation," Illusizing Advantageously Large Areas of Land. trated with cuts ' showing bow the Campbell system of soil culture Is apHon. F. W. Mondcll, member of con plied and Its effect upon the ground. gress from Wyoming, at the recent. An Instructive article on Kubanka dry farming congress at Hillings, durum wheat Is by Prof. W. 11. Olln spoke at some length on legislation af of Colorado, of the confecting dry farming. Continuing he gress, and superintendent of exhibits said: at the International Dry Farm expo"The bountiful growth of agricult sition held In connection with the ural crops In many and widely separ- fourth Dry Farming congress at Billated regions of our country, with an ings, Mont. In giving his estimate of amount of annual precipitation which Kubanka durum, Prof. Olln says: a few years ago we considered entire"I find it to be the most drought rely Inadequate, has so abundantly dem- sistant wheat which I have tested at onstrated the success of what we call the Colorado experiment station. I dry farming that it Is no longer neces- believe it to be the most desirable sary to make elaborate arguments as Bprlng wheat for the farmer on the to the possibility and practicability lands. of profitable agriculture under condi"I am Indorsing this wheat for tions of limited rainfall. Colorado conditions where winter "While dry farming Is as old as wheat has not proven satisfactory. 1 history, and has developed a large frankly believe that Turkey Red winfield of experience and information, as ter wheat should be grown on the well as a wide range of drought-resistinlands wherever It is succrops, it is only recently that cessful, since it has a market at every the necessity of providing for our in- station, as Colorado millers pay froi creasing population has brought this three to flvo cents a hundred system of agriculture to prominent atfor this wheat, because of Its tention In the United States and de- high milling quality. veloped a class of men who have with "When durum wheat, comes out characteristic American energy and from under the miller's ban, as I yet Intelligence evolved dry farming from helleve It will, then I will say, 'Grow a more or less makeshift and tllpohod durum wheat on 'he policy into real science. lands over the semi-ariwest, and lots "The development of methodical and i of It.' scientific dry farming has not only ! "To the farmer who contemplates demonstrated the possibility of utiliz- growing this wheat, I would urge the ing successfully, advantageously, and following suggestions: to the benefit of mankind, large areas "I. Get It Into the ground as easr'y of lands in the United States former- In the spring climatic conditions ly held to have no higher- value or will permit. ; usefulness than that of permanent dry "2. Seed ten pe"r cent, more to the pasture lands, but has made clear the acre than you did with Turkey Red conditions under which dry farming Is winter wheat, because the kernel is most successful. It has also pointed much larger. out the necessity for a larger area for "3. Practice summer tillage upon the energetic and successful dry farm- the ground you expect to seed to er than is required either under arti- durum wheat so that you will conficial irrigation or in regions of plen- serve the moisture. tiful rainfall. "4. Do not expect more than 23 "Because crops are grown success- bushels to the acre as a crop yield. fully on the right kind of soil by thor- Under the most favorable conditions ough tillage, with a limited rainfall, the highest yield reported in Colorado no one should get the idea that crops Is 48 bushels. The lowest yield which can be grown on all sorts of land with I have ever known In Colorado Is 10 any sort of tillage and no moisture to to 12 bushels." speak of. It cannot be done successfully. On the other hand there are LAST DRY FARMING CONGRESS In the aggregate millions of acres including some extensive and many lim- Fourth General Convention of Farmers ited areas where dry farming may be and Scientists Interested In Moistcarried on with satisfaction, success, ure Conservation. and profit which are now utilized only for grazing. The dry farming congress, which re"Above all things the dry farmer to met at Billings, Mont, was the cently be successful must farm well. With fourth general convention of farmers plenteous rainfall the slipshod farm- and scientists Interested In that branch er may get along In a way, the dry of the conservation of semi-ariland farm is no place for him. Of course, which is commonly known as areas, I you will find doubting Thomases. This Is a compara"dry farming." dry farmed extensively and success- tively new term In agriculture. It Is fully in Wyoming as long ago as 1892. also misleading, and Is not to be taken There are men who saw the results of literally. A better term would, be that farming who are not yet con- "conservation farming." as it Is Imvinced that you can raise crops west to dispose with water In agpossible of the OSth Meridian without Irrigariculture. Dry farming In the sense tion. There are lots of such people used in connection with this congress In the country. Do not spend your is that system of farm operations In time trying to convert them. It is a semi-ariwhich uses only the waste of effort, but go right on rais- moisture ofregions natural precipitation, withing crops and developing the country. out any aid from Irrigation. It Is There are lrrigatlonlsts who are "dry" in contrast to farming as conenough to imagine that ducted in humid or i reIn some way dry farming is a reflecgions. tion on, or interferes with, reclamaThe first dry farming congress met tion development The fact Is - that in Denver, in which city It established dry farming always has been, and al- permanent International headquarters. ways will be, the companion and Succeeding congresses were held In handmaiden of irrigation development. Salt Lake and and the Cheyenne, The two methods are practiced almeeting was the fourth. most universally In the same general Billings It was attended by regions the world over. With the In- from all portions of semi-ari-representatives America, creasing value of Irrigated lands and and by delegates from Canada, Austhe dedication of such lands to the tralia, South Africa, Russia, Brazil and growth of special crops of high acre Mexico. The greater number of delevalue the encouragement of the dry gates were Americans, of course, repland growth of cereals and of certhe farmers, the various tain classes of fruits and vegetables resenting state departments of agriculture and is constantly augmented. the federal government Representa"No fallacy is more prevalent than tives from many agricultural schools the notion that the amount of precip- also were in attendance. t itation Is approximately the same In connection with this congress an rethroughout an arid or semi-ari- d international dry farming exposition gion. The fact Is that there Is a wide was held. In this exposition were exrange in the amount of precipitation, hibited, the products of owing to differences in elevation and lands in the arid regions of this and other topographical conditions in com- other countries, also farm terri- machinery of types paratively arid and semi-ariparticularly adapttory. ed to dry farming. "Regions which are practically desert until reclaimed by irrigation oftGENERAL FARM NOTES. en He within a few miles of bench lands with fertile loam soil and sufCorn meal fed with raw pumpkins ficient precipitation, for profitable furnishes a satisfactory ration for fat dry farming. Tbese conditions occur tening hogs. alt over the mountainous and hilly Begin now to feed the nubbins and portion of the intermountaln country Imperfect ears as fast as they are for and afford many opportunities husked. comfortable homes. If the cows do not give their milk "I hail the dry farmer as one of the take it from them, firmly but freely most potent factors in the developgently. ment of our western states. Many Neatness In all departments of the millions of acres will remain permanfarm life ought to be the farmer's Ho should select ent grazing lands. so In the dairy. his location as carefully as must the motto, but especially Get the best appliances you can for If he does will he Intending irrigator. find abundant opportunities for the the dairy, but remember that the best establishment of prosperous dry farm machinery ever made requires gump homes in the land of sunshine and tion behind It The doctor always appears to have sufficient showers." the most business at those farms where the stench from the hog pen Moisture In Butter. can be detected far down the road. more butter containing Creamery For winter feeding clover needs cutthan 16 per cent of moisture Is contrary to law and liable to be confis- ting and steaming. Fed with grain It cated by the government The moist- makes a good bulky food and helps to Ten drams keep the hogs In good growing condl ure tests are Ingenious. of butter are heated in a cup until the tlon. Feed is too expensive to use spar- moisture is boiled out It will then weigh less, and the loss is shown by In Sly. You get no real returns from percentage of weights. This gives the n mere subsistence ration. It Is what answer mechnnlcally and direct with' yvx feed above that that really makes n oney for you. l it ary figuring. d d ire-mlu- d d . d d RESCUE OF HER CHUM MARGARET KALMAN FINDS MYRTLE ACKERMAN INSENSIBLE FROM SMOKE. Gathered o Davis Speech as a Trust Destroyer 30-da- y Caught by Moving Picture Machine A mighty runny In Washington recently, and a certain man has not got through explaining things to his wife yet This man was In Oregon on a business trip a few days before the fight between Johnson and KetcheU at Colma. He had expected to return to the wife of his bosom by a certain date, but instead of that sent a telegram stating that he would have to remain in Portland, Ore., at least two days longer than at first sched uled. He reached Washington accord ing to his revised schedule, and his wife was all the happier to greet him because of bis remaining away a lit tle bit longer. The other night one of the enterprising city papers gave a movlng-plcturexhibition of that particular fight In Colma. This Just returned Washington man told bis wife that he would like to have her go down town with him and look at the pictures, and she went The films hadn't been running off but a few min WASHINGTON. e Horse Laughs utes when the wife yanked her husband's arm and said: ' "Tou see that man In the front seat there. He certainly does look like you." The man glanced at the front row indicated, and cold shivers ran up and down his backbone. It never had entered his head that there would be anything but Just the prize fight to be seen, and he realized In a second that the man on the front seat not only looked like him, but was him. The man, with a jerky little laugh declared, of course, that was Just absurd, and that he couldn't see the slightest resemblance to himself in the man jn the front seat The wife kept on watching, however, and positively declined to leave the scene, . and her mouth got "sotter and sotter" as she began to realise how her husband had lied to her. Before the end of the third round her husband simply had to acknowledge that the man on the front He seat was himself sure enough. suggested a little supper down town to his wife, which she accepted, and then he suggested a new long sealskin coat, which she also accepted, and, furthermore, she got a number of other handsome presents which she WDuld not be possessed of y had not that .husband of hers remained over to see the fight In Colma. to-da- at the d d ; Chicago. The presence of mind and physical strength of Miss Margaret in Washington Kalman. twenty-twyears old, helped her to save the life of her chum. Miss Myrtle Ackerman, twenty years old. And Miss Ackerman who soon recuperated fronl the effects of smoke which overcame her when fire broke out in came back to Washington he was met ber home could not say enough in upon his arrival by Senator Johnson praise or Miss Kalman s heroism. of Alabama, who exhibited a mournful Miss Kalman, who luckily called at countenance and spoke in funereal the Ackerman borne Just at the min. ute Miss Ackerman fell In a swoon tones. "Well, I'm 'up against it this time," after telephoning for the fire departhe said to Davis, with a voice betray- ment, picked up her unconscious chum ing a final resignation to a hard fate. and carried the limp form down the "What Is the matter?" chirped the back stairs. "I believe I would have choked to big senator from Arkansas, who Is NOTHING of great importance something of an optimist, despite his AShas come before congress, mem melancholy speeches on the general bers are putting In their spare time state of the union. between sessions gossiping and chatrule has ruined my "That ting about Incidents of the last ses- pet bill," said Johnson. sion, most of the discussions being "Thirty-darule! What is that?" about the great tariff fight A Joke Thundered Davis. on Senator Jeff Davis of Arkansas has "Haven't you heard about ItT" recaused much amusement among the plied Johnson, meekly. "Why. if you members, some of whom heard it re- fall to get action on your bill within cently for the first time. His speech SO days after you introduce it It Is last session as a trust baiter is cher dead ished as a monumental example of "What's that?" shouted Davis, alwhat can be done with the English most frantic with rage. "Do you language when one actually tries. mean to 'tell me my anti-trus- t bill Is The history of the making of that dead? I'll hold my colleague Clarke speech is this: responsible to the people of Arkansas After breaking all precedents of the if that bill died In my absence." He dashed off without another word senate by making his first speech 11 days after he had been sworn in as In search of bis colleague. Naturally a member of that body, Senator Davis Senator Clarke soothed his worked-urested on his laurels. He went out reelings by assuring him that his bill to Arkansas, leaving bis long cher- was safe, but Senator Davis had had ished anti trust bill in the hands of his scare, and then and there began the senate, having warned that body the preparation of his second speech that he not only wanted action on it, on his bill which upset the traditions but wanted it quickly. When he finally and dignity of the senate. d seml-huml- THRILLING Gossip of People and Events d short-sighte- IHA GIRL laugh, and some say there a thing as a horse laugh, the noble animal, properly labeled "man's best friend," can utter a merry ha, ha, over the news recently given out by the department of agriculture that war has been declared on the loco weed. No longer are the mustang and the cayuse of the plains to become "plumb locoed" if the bureau of plant Industry has Its way. The term "plumb locoed" has been a sort of stock phrase in the range literature ever since the cowboy first noted the peculiar actions of a horse, cow or sheep resulting from an overindulgence In the loco weed, which abounds In the range country from Texas to Montana. The word "loco" Is of Spanish origin, meaning crazy, and has been popular IFIshorses such Loco Weed War ly applied to the disease which robs an animal of Its muscular causing it to do all sorts of fancy antics, and finally results In the animal starving Itself to death. The bureau of plant Industry has been investigating the purple and white loco weed. One of the peculiar characteristics of It is that the pods, when dry and full of seeds, rattle as a person passes through a patch, making a sound that resembles the warning of a rattlesnake. Ordinarily neither horse, cow nor sheep will eat the weed If It can find any other food. Loco-weeeating becomes a sort of habit with an animal once it has tasted of It The operation of the weed on the system of an animal scientifically bears out the fiction which ascribes to a "plumb locoed" animal all kinds of fool antics. The Investigations of the bureau indicate that the purple loco Is more poisonous than the white loco. Horses eat the purple loco almost exclusively, while the white loco Is eaten by all kinds of animals. Barium is found in many loco plants and its connection with the poisonous effects is still under Investigation. d national capital was stirred center to circumference rethe news came hurtflng when cently over the cables from the far east that Fairbanks had former shaved off the chin whisker that he has worn since early manhood. It remen of the past called to who disported hirsute adornments, the memory of which has become a part of the traditions of the town. There was former Senator Mitchell of Oregon, whose beard dropped to his waist Hue, and Senator Mitchell of Wisconsin, whose multitudinous whiskers were a topic of discussion In tho discourse of nearly every capital guide, and Senator Peffer of Kansas, who fre-t- ) eatly carried his long black beard Vice-Preside- death if Margaret bad not come Just when she did ond saved me," Miss Ackerman said yesterday The Ackerman flat is at 3022 East Ninety-seconstreet The fire was in a front closet. When the smoke reached the kitchen where, were Miss Ackerman and her father, Frederick Ackerman, Mr. Ackerman ran to the front to get a portrait of his wife, who died recently, and told his daughter to summon the fire engines by telephone. Miss Kalman, not knowing of the. fire, ran up the back stairs and Into the house, almost stumbling over her prostrate girl friend. Miss Ackerman is petite but Misa Kalman Is robust and strong. d FIEND AT NIGHT BOY IS Loving and Kind In Day, He Turns to a Demon In His . A Sleep. City. Mo. What. Is .. the . I f .1 I aucr impulse inai ieau or one the Schoonover, 11 years old, kindest and most devoted of boys to his parents In his waking hours, to Kansas City, Kan., had attempted to desire to murder them while walking In his sleep? For months his parents, who live in Kansas City, Kan., had attempted to determine the cause of the strange ailment that displays itself only at night, but which makes of him a veritable fiend. Falling, they have appealed to Judge Van B. Prather to help them to solve the case. Several times, of late the boy's father and stepmother hare awakened to find the youth stooping over them with a hammer In his hand, prepared to dash out their brains. It Is with the greatest difficulty that they terrain him from Injuring them. When awakened he returns to bed In a peaceful irame or mina. The boy stoutly maintains that he loves his parents and does not know why he has such homicidal Impulses.' The court ordered the boy sent to a sanitarium. Kansas -- 1 A Birange The Bus Eighty Years Ago. The London omnibus is now 80 years old. It was on July 4, 1829, that George Shtllibeer, after being successively a midshipman In the British navy and a coach builder In Paris, placed on the London streets the first two omnibuses ever seen In England. A large crowd assembled to witness the start and general admiration was expressed at the smart appearance of the vehicles, which were built to Inside of his coat and many others carry 22 passengers, all Inside, and too numerous to mention. were drawn by three beautiful bays, One day Senator Mitchell of Ore- harnessed abreast The word "Omnigon had his beard removed, and short- bus" was painted In large letters on ly thereafter proceeded to the floor of both sides of the vehicles. The fare the senate. A bill was up for consid- from the "Yorkshire Stingo" to the eration in which be was Interested. ttanw was Is.; half way, Cd. NewspaHe rose to his feet and addressed the pers and magazines were provided chair. Senator Manderson of Ne- free of charge. braska was presiding. He glanced at Pet Dog Foiled Escape. the man addressing him, and was about to call for the sergeant atarms Fayettevllle, W. Va. While the Fny-ctt- e when he was prompted by a clerk county Jailer and his family were who had sized up the situation. Sena- attending church, 10 prisoners, led by tors smiled In a perfectly senatorial Frank Carver, a convicted murderer, way, while those in the galleries made a desperate attempt to escape. roared. They sawed the bars from the cells, The bearded statesman has gone out and whllo attempting to gain an enof stylo, apparently. Only one such trance In the Jailer's apartments to Is in President Tart's cabinet .He Is make a dash for liberty, a pet bulldog, James Wilson, secretary of agrlcul owned by. the Jailer, discovered the ture. There are only a few bearded wen at work and ran out on the street lawmakers In the senate, among them and started barking loudly. The peNelson of Minnesota, Burrows of Kan culiar actions of the dog caused sevand phi, Cullom or Illinois, Hale or Maine, eral byst'iiiders to investigate ?;ott of West Virginia, and Stephen-fitfiey discovered the men at work. The of Wisconsin, all of them of the taller was summoned and the Jail d o: I school limy was nipped in the bud Fairbanks' Shave Recalls Few Others THE Carried Her Chum to Safety. n |